The Arts: The Global Dimension

This excellent booklet shows how the global dimension to the arts enriches classroom

teaching in Art and Design, Dance, Drama and Music. The global dimension explores the ways in which individuals, communities, and cultures shape and are shaped by others locally and globally. It can broaden learners’ understanding of themselves, their setting and place in an intricate web of relationships. Appreciating how artists convey these connected histories and highlight alternative futures can be a stimulus for pupils to make their own positive contributions through the arts.

The Atlas of War and Peace

This classic reference book takes us beyond the headlines. It provides a global overview of the causes and consequences of war today and the dynamics of peacemaking. It analyses current wars, their backgrounds, their trends and their prospects on every continent. It covers such key issues as: the causes of war, US power, peace treaties, death tolls, landmines, AIDS and conflict, international terrorism, the role of the UN, the arms trade, refugees, child soldiers, war crimes and the law, and peacebuilding.

Culture, Trade and Globalisation: Questions and Answers

This handy little book asks questions such as: What do we mean by ‘free trade’? What is the WTO? What do we understand by ‘cultural diversity’? What do we understand by ‘cultural goods and services’? What is the TRIPS? What is the TRIMS? What is the GATS? What does ‘most favoured nation’ mean? The book also includes loads more pressing questions and very helpful, succinct answers.

Why White Kids Like Hip Hop

Why White Kids Like Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, And the New Reality of Race in America

The Global Education Centre has added this resource to it’s library in recognition that there is a diverse group of youth in Aotearoa NZ how come in contact with Hip Hop culture. While it’s focus is American culture, the messages are universal

This resource explores how traditional notions of race are changing in a world made increasingly complex in the last few decades.

Can't Stop Won't Stop

Refered to as one of the essential books of Hip Hop, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop is a must read for anybody living the Hip Hop Lifestyle.

'Hip-hop is the voice of this generation. Even if you didn't grow up in the Bronx in the '70s, hip-hop is there for you. It has become a powerful force. Hip-hop binds all of these people, all of these nationalities, all over the world together."

—DJ Kool Herc, from the Introduction

Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and transformed American politics and culture. But that epic story has never been told like this. From the gangs of the late 60s to the icons of the new millennium, from the Ghetto Brothers and Universal Zulu Nation organizations to the hip-hop activists, Can't Stop Won't Stop presents the hip-hop generation in all its grime and glory with breadth, wit, and style.

Children of Thula Mntwana: Growing up in cities

Like people in 13% of all homes in South Africa, 13 year old Zukiswa lives in a shanty settlement near a big city. She explains how her family became squatters in Thula Mntwana near Johannesburg. Despite the daily struggle for survival and exposure to fear and violence, Zukiswa and other children make an effort to live like any other children in the world. Zukiswa tells of how she and other children in the squatter camp learned to identify problems in their living environment and of their invitation by the mayor to present their insights and problems to public officials.

Dying to Get In: The business of people smuggling

The UN estimates there are 50 million refugees and migrants moving around the world. Some are trying to save their lives, others to improve them. Millions are on the road to new lives, prison, limbo, or worse. Wenhong Li, a young Chinese man, paid more than NZ$78,000 to people smugglers who promised him a safe and sure passage to a new life in Canada. A very different life awaited him. In telling Wenhong Li’s story, this video presents the human face of the worldwide humanitarian issue of those who risk all in a bid to live and work in a wealthy western nation. It includes video support notes with an introduction to the video, activities for before and after viewing the video, photocopiable student response sheets, a list of related websites, and questions about migration issues and illegal arrivals. Suitable for Social Studies and English.

Genocide

Genocide, the systematic destruction of a group of people, tragically remains a major global issue today. Despite the lessons learned from planned exterminations such as the Armenian massacre, the international response was limited in subsequent genocides in countries like Cambodia and Rwanda. This video defines genocide, explores the nature and cause of the crime, and shows students how the world community attempts to monitor global conditions and prevent future atrocities.

Globalisation and Human Rights: Can profits and principles co-exist?

There is an emerging conflict in the new world of globalization between those who make economic decisions and those who struggle to cope with the impact of those decisions. This video examines: the ownership, allocation and distribution of resources in an economy; reasons for the emergence of globalization; reasons for the expansion of organizations across national boundaries; the effects of globalization on the environment, consumers and labour; and alternatives to globalisation. It includes video support notes with a synopsis of the viedo, activities for after viewing the video, and photocopiable student worksheets. Suitable for senior geography and economics.

Blue Gold: The Interactive Encyclopaedia of Water

Water is one of the most precious resources of our planet. But it does not exist in unlimited quantities, and what does exist is becoming more and more polluted. This Cd-rom encyclopaedia of water provides access to 12 websites, hours of enjoyable and instructive consultation, 3D computer generated graphics, 22 video clips, over 600 photographs, 8 slide-show presentations, 200 charts, diagrams and maps, one hour of commentary, and a database indexed by subject. It explores issues such as the relationship between water and civilizations; and the relationship between water and life on earth.

The Canoe is the People: Indigenous navigation in the Pacific

Thousands of years ago, when most sailors were still hugging the coast, the island peoples of the Pacific held the knowledge and skills to explore the great ocean paths around and beyond their homes. They navigated their canoes with their own sophisticated techniques, using the seas, skies, and sea life to guide them. Their knowledge was built up through generations of experience and handed down through careful teaching, stories, and songs. This excellent CD-rom honours and explores the knowledge and skills of traditional pacific navigation.

Cultural Diversity and Indigenous Peoples: oral, written expressions and new technologies

Indigenous people currently represent some 350 million individuals or 4 percent of the world’s population, and constitute the wealth of our planet’s cultural diversity. This CD-rom presents projects developed by UNESCO in an effort to safeguard cultural diversity and promote cultural pluralism.

Martin Luther King CDROM

A multi-function CDROM uses the life of Martin Luther King for the study of human rights, prejudice and peaceful responses to conflict. It includes audio and video clips and text documents to support five lessons of activities for discussion, letter-writing, role play, drama, design and imagination. Notes are provided for each lesson, along with suggestions for further work.